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pphysch on May 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: htmx

There is nothing preventing you from having new endpoints serve frontend JSON, or from refactoring select endpoints away from HTMX.

If you are refactoring everything because a small subset of features didn't fit the HTMX glove, that's an engineering management failure.

egeozcan on May 27, 2023 [–]

You can say the same for the conversion between any 2 frontend frameworks, or even wordpress (you can just add another php file and do whatever next to your existing stuff), what's the special thing about htmx here?

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